soulsearching
Sprang sprangsprungSPRING reading tom mooreCare of the Soul. about ritual,the importance of not forgetting. We all forget. The magic is we often remember in time not to drown. Spring and Fall do it to me. And writing something down, a minute before reading almost exactly what I wrote in a book opened at random,YES... I'm nowhere near as driven as tommy moore, but we share a similar grounding in liturgy and ritual and leaving it all behind, yet taking it with us forever. Wife is doing a Sadir with a friend she had not seen for 30 years until we went to brunch together a week ago. Our thinking about ritual coincided with my soul searching and my being steeped in Papist catholicity. This reflective dimension and autocthony(can't find it in my old dictionary, but its heideggerian, means rootedness,hereI mean it in a spiritual, dare I say, soulful sense) help me get through the days and part of the nights...I always preferred students who had some roadwear; the ones who sit in my classroom these days give new meaning to "callow Youths". The stretch my credulity and test my resilience. I know I have something to say, I know what I want them to say, but they must own it before they say it. They must seek answers within themselves by dealving deeply into themselves and moving beyond the limits they have allowed to grow around them. As I must. Ritual, liturgy ,the renewal of Spring, the dying of the light, the birthing of the light, the remembering what we have forgotten or have chosen to forget. Perhaps now I can face the day, walk with my wife and dog and others who have joined a small prayerful walk for peace in a tiny town. We started on a winter day, winds blowing noses leaking. Today it is April and growing.